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Even hobos avoided hide cars. They use to ship hides a lot in wood gondolas and wood flats because the juice off of them would eat a steel car up. I never heard of them using box cars, I would think that even during the depression that no one would unload a box car of hides. Off the subject a little, but in 1973 I worked the summer for a fruit market. The N and W lost a boxcar of Idaho Potaoes we had ordered and they we suppose to be delivered in March but showed up in late Aug. We went to the team tracks and opened the door and got sprayed with rotten potato slush. We had to unload the box car and it was horrible. You would take a deep breath, go inside and get a scoope shovel full, run out and dump it, exhale and do it again. Stupid me did it for 3-10 hour days for $2.50 an hour.
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